Mr. Sensenbrenner, as I am reading through this act and looking at the types of injuries that would occur to people, it occurs to me that there are existing Federal statutes which come into play with respect to inflicting bodily harm on individuals. Why are we creating a specific classification here?
Questioning the need for a new classification of bodily harm in proposed legislation.
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